Remote Real-Time Voice Engineer: Sub-500ms Latency

BairesDev; Colombia; Remote; COP 324,496,000 - 454,295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

USD compensation

Home office setup

Flexible hours

Parental leave

Global team

Job summary

BairesDev is hiring an IVR Engineer - Real-Time Voice Pipeline. You will build and operate production-grade voice agents with sub-500ms latency across the full real-time audio stack, from VAD to TTS/LLM integrations.

You'll work across multiple languages and frameworks, ensuring reliability and performance of streaming coordination between STT, LLM, and TTS components. This is a fully remote, globally distributed team opportunity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building and operating conversational voice agents.
• Proficiency in Go and Python.
• English proficiency required.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production-grade conversational voice agents at scale.
• Optimize the full real-time audio pipeline to maintain sub-500ms latency.
• Implement VAD, turn-taking logic, and barge-in/interruption handling.
• Work across multiple languages and frameworks as the voice stack requires.
• Ensure reliability and performance of streaming coordination across STT, LLM, and TTS components.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Real-time voice systems

Go and Python proficiency

Tools

Go

Python

Vapi

Retell

ElevenLabs

LiveKit Agents

Pipecat

Job description

BairesDev is hiring an IVR Engineer - Real-Time Voice Pipeline. You will build and operate production-grade voice agents with sub-500ms latency across the full real-time audio stack, from VAD to TTS/LLM integrations.

You'll work across multiple languages and frameworks, ensuring reliability and performance of streaming coordination between STT, LLM, and TTS components. This is a fully remote, globally distributed team opportunity.